In an old clip, Katrina Kaif talked about travelling to many countries during her childhood and being instilled with the thought that her skin tone is dark.
Actor Katrina Kaif was born in Hong Kong to Indian father, Mohammed Kaif, and a British mother, Suzanne Turquotte. She moved to several countries during her childhood and eventually settled in London. However, the actor pursued a career in acting in India as she felt a strong connection to the country. In an old 2009 interview, which is being widely shared on the internet, Katrina shared why she believed she fit well in India.
During the interview, Katrina was asked if she felt disconnected from her Indian side due to her parents’ divorce when she was young. The actor replied, “I don’t think so because, you know, it’s such a basic thing to say that’ll probably sound very stupid but you must’ve seen it enough in your friends how you have very dark children who grow up to be very fair? I was a very dark child. There was no way you would look at me and say that this is a Caucasian child. I was always known as how exotic or how ethnic.”
The ‘Merry Christmas’ actor expressed that she lacked a sense of belonging throughout her life due to constant travel between countries.
“By coincidence, those countries were the far east Hong Kong, China, Japan, France, very predominantly fair, white Caucasian countries. So, that instilled it in me more. Which is probably why when I came to India, maybe other people would’ve gotten afraid that, ‘I’d just come to another country and landed up here’. But probably for me, it may sound filmy, I felt such a sense of belonging because I realised that it just fit somehow,” Katrina added.